Reviews for The Sensual Home: Liberate Your Senses and Change Your Life

The average rating for The Sensual Home: Liberate Your Senses and Change Your Life based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-03 00:00:00 George Batts I really wanted to like this book, as I am a huge fan of Ilse's work and her latest book. The intention of this book is clear and interesting, but a lot of the content did not stood the test of time or was plainly horoscope-like. While there are good insights, many of them are sensual opinions and intuition, that are contrary to scientific findings. Let's start with people having much more than 6 senses, as the book and popular belief claims. Here are few medically recognised senses - temperature, muscle power, texture, balance, pressure, position and location, pain, electromagnetic sense, peripheral vision, etc... Claims on effects of coloured light on human body laid out in the book have little to do with scientific findings on circadian rhythm and light wavelength (not necessarily colour) effects on melatonin suppression (the book says that "yellow stimulates the intellect; orange enhances creativity [...] green induces calm and balance"). For actual science, this could be a starter article: While reading it, you might get a feeling that everything that's natural is good and is basically a panacea, while anything synthetic is "bad". Fireplaces while maybe cozy to some, burn out oxygen out of a room and make you dizzy and emit much more CO2 than civilised heating inventions. Candles emit more CO2 than energy saving light bulbs. Natural pigments in paint most of the times used to be poisonous (arsenic for green) and unstable, so modern synthetic pigments are great, sustainable and affordable options, people don't have to source and grind lapis lazuli from smugglers or moth wings to attain pigments. The book layout is the opposite of being sensually harmonious, with impossibly wide blocks of text and font that was designed to be used for programming computer code, but not a longer read in a book on sensual home. As this book nowadays retails at 200-300$ on Amazon, I'd first check it at a library before purchasing wether it's really worth the investment.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-05-23 00:00:00 Mary Ellen Guimomd This lovely book is now out of print. Thank goodness for Link+ library loans. A delightful primer on our needs as sensual beings to be surrounded, at least in the place we call home, with elements that delight all of our senses. If you already love candle-light, crisp sheets, fresh flowers, and home baked bread, here is validation of the benefits all of these add to your well-being. An excellent book for occupational therapists, and an inviting reminder to the rest of us who need more simple delights in our most personal spaces.